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Thirty-one years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Hoover fellow Shelby Steele explains why King’s dream remains unfulfilled.
Hoover fellow Thomas Sowell on a generation of policies that have done black Americans far more harm than good.
The biggest improvement in the lives of ordinary Americans during the last couple of decades? According to Hoover fellow Gary S. Becker, the drastic reduction in the rate of crime. The Nobel laureate explains how the United States finally did it.
Recent reports claim that raising children in day care centers does them no harm. Hoover fellow Jennifer Roback Morse has a different report to file.
The era of big government may be over, but no one seems to have told the IRS. Hoover media fellow Amity Shlaes proposes a tax code overhaul.
Hoover fellow Alvin Rabushka offers a tax reform proposal that would save the Social Security system, make the tax system flat and fair, and give taxpayers the opportunity to increase their retirement savings. Not bad for eight hundred words.
Beneath the budget surplus lies a grabby tax collector—and federal spending that is still going up. By Hoover media fellow Peter Brimelow.
The media portrayed the election last November as a Republican catastrophe. Yet the GOP did extremely well in races for the seats of real power—governors’ mansions. By Hoover media fellow Michael Barone.
President Clinton and Hoover fellow Edward P. Lazear agree that the president deserves credit for the current economic expansion. They just disagree about which president.
As the stock market continues its unprecedented boom, Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow Gary S. Becker suggests that we all recall an economic truism: The greater the returns, the greater the risk.
Every so often it’s worth pausing to reflect on just how good capitalism has been to us. Hoover fellow David R. Henderson compares average Americans with medieval kings—and concludes that the kings were paupers.
Is the recent wave of corporate megamergers cause for alarm? On the contrary, argues Hoover fellow David W. Brady. The new corporate giants are incorporating the best management techniques from around the world. Bigger isn’t better. Better is better.
The conventional wisdom regarding Social Security is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the system does—and does not—work. Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman explains why it is time to end Social Security as we know it.
Investing Social Security funds in the stock market would be a fine idea, wouldn’t it? President Clinton thinks so. Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow Milton Friedman thinks not.
Hoover fellow John F. Cogan looks at sixty years of Social Security—and explains how not to save the system.
The best way to protect the environment? Consult common sense—and common law. By legal scholar Richard A. Epstein.
The biotech industry is choking on FDA regulations. Hoover Fellow Henry I. Miller attempts a Heimlich maneuver.
In an earlier life, Hoover fellow John E. Robson helped to deregulate the American airline industry. The industry has flourished ever since. Yet the industry’s very success has prompted calls for reregulation, to Robson’s considerable chagrin. How deregulation worked—and why reregulation wouldn’t.
The prospect of a biological or chemical attack is no longer hypothetical. By Secretary of the Navy Richard J. Danzig.
The legal basis for attacks on terrorists? In a word, self-defense. By Hoover fellow Abraham D. Sofaer.
Academics and pundits routinely assert that democracies do not wage wars against other democracies. If only it were so. By Thomas Schwartz and Hoover fellow Kiron Skinner.
The Cold War world was dangerous and hostile but also predictable and tidy. Today’s world is likewise dangerous and hostile—but less predictable and far, far less tidy. Hoover fellow Ken Jowitt offers a new foreign policy for our uncertain times.
Why do human rights organizations so rarely focus their ire on leftist regimes? By Hoover fellow William Ratliff.
Europe’s chronic unemployment is a problem of Europe’s own making. Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow Gary S. Becker explains.
A decade has passed since Thatcher and Reagan stepped down. With the Labour Party in power in Britain and a Democrat in the White House, the deputy leader of the British Conservative Party describes what conservatives must do to return to political—and moral—leadership. By the Right Honorable Peter Lilley, MP.
Can Russia still dig itself out of its economic morass? Hoover fellow Robert J. Barro thinks it can—if it follows his advice.
Had there been no IMF, many argue, the Asian financial crisis would have turned into a global catastrophe. Milton Friedman disagrees. Had there been no IMF, he argues, the Asian financial crisis wouldn’t even have taken place. The Nobel laureate and Hoover fellow explains himself.
Hoover fellow Robert Conquest on men who fought on opposite sides of the Cold War—George Orwell and Alger Hiss—and on the legacy of their era. “Although the Cold War is over in reality, it is still being waged mentally in certain circles.”
Hoover fellow Arnold Beichman surveys recently declassified Soviet documents. What Hiss and the Rosenbergs didn’t want you to know.
One of the century’s intellectual giants reflects on America’s past—and future. An interview with Hoover fellow Edward Teller by Lee Munson.
Hoover Institution associate director Richard Sousa on a document that looks innocuous—but changed the world.
A comprehensive listing of recent writings of Hoover fellows and publications from the Hoover Press.